RICHLAND PARISH, LA – Whether a data centre pays for anything you care about is decided before the first slab is poured. It is decided by what your local sales tax is already promised to, and by whether anybody is there to spend money. In one Louisiana parish the sales tax was already dedicated to …
A Data Centre Came to a Poor Parish · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
AI is reshaping how products are built, shipped, and measured. Companies are finding that the gap between a promising AI prototype and a product users actually trust isn’t a research problem. It’s a product problem. That gap is where the AI product manager (PM) lives. Unlike traditional product managers who oversee deterministic systems, AI PMs …
The Roadmap to Becoming an AI Product Manager in 2026 Read More »
Short answer Does Medicare pay for a fall detection device? Original Medicare does not pay for a fall alarm or a medical alert system. The reason is a definition written around durable hospital equipment, which a wearable button does not fit, and no amount of medical need moves an item into a category it does …
Speeding up robotics development By bringing together advanced visual-semantic reasoning, deep physical understanding, and autonomous code generation, Argon unlocks new workflows across the robotics stack and accelerates progress toward physical AGI. This leap in capability is reflected in Argon’s performance on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark, which tests a model’s ability to understand and solve …
Short answer Who writes the rules where you live? Who writes the rules where you live depends on the home you mean. States license and inspect most of them. Washington sets conditions a facility must meet in order to take Medicare or Medicaid money, which is a different power from licensing and reaches a narrower …
Where You Live and Who Regulates It: Two Rulebooks Read More »
Suppose you’re on a game show, facing three closed doors. Behind one of them there is a car. Behind the other two are goats. You pick one, say door 1. The host knows what’s behind every door, and he opens one of the other two, say door 3, to show you a goat. Then he …
Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem Read More »
Short answer Which government licenses assisted living? Assisted living is licensed by states, not by any federal agency. Every state has at least one category of residential care, and the category on a building’s licence decides which rules apply to it. Federal rules still reach the building when Medicaid pays for the care inside. A …
Assisted Living Regulation: Whose Rulebook Covers You Read More »
Large language models are remarkable text generators, but they have a well-documented weakness: they hallucinate. Without access to verified, up-to-date information, they confidently produce plausible-sounding answers that are factually wrong. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) emerged as the standard solution, grounding model outputs in external knowledge sources and dramatically reducing hallucinations across enterprise applications. But as organizations …
Agentic RAG vs. Naive RAG: When Your Retrieval System Should Think for Itself Read More »
Short answer What did the federal staffing rule require? The federal hours per resident day minimums and the round the clock registered nurse requirement were removed by an interim final rule effective 2 February 2026. A statutory requirement survives: a registered nurse for at least 8 consecutive hours a day, seven days a week. On …
Nursing Facility Staffing: What Actually Applies Now Read More »
Gemini 4 Argon is a step forward in what models can do — especially when it comes to deep work in complex, real-world tasks across domains including coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity, and science. Its cyberdefense capabilities are frontier-level and designed to give defenders an advantage over attackers. To maximize its potential, we first wanted cyber …
Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely Read More »
